Folks, The A(F)PRC and its surrogates it seems are trying to create a distraction out of juxtaposing Diasporans and their compatriots at home in the ongoing discourse. This is cheap and they better stop insinuating. Omar Joof. >From: Joe Sambou <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Majority leader urges Commonwealth to reconsider Diaspora voting >Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:36:32 +0000 > >Folks, if you have jokes for leaders, then yours is a joke. How can this >fool even form his mouth to utter such nonsense when our economy in gliding >on the remittances of diasporans? This confirms our belief that these >handkerchief heads do not want diasporans to vote because they know that it >will be easy victory for NADD. Thus, NADD should do all it can to make >sure >that diasporans are enfranchised. These people are pathetic! > >"He noted that preference should be given to the stay-at-homes, who >continue >to support the country’s development process." > >Does Chicken know his purpose in that Assembly? > > >Majority leader urges Commonwealth to reconsider Diaspora voting >Written by Alieu Badara Ceesay >Wednesday, 14 September 2005 >Churchill Baldeh, the majority leader of the National Assembly, has called >on the Commonwealth to think twice about its willingness to help >enfranchise >Gambians in the Diaspora, in the build-up to the 2006 presidential >election. > > >Speaking recently in an interview with the Daily Observer, Hon Baldeh said: >“It is meaningless for us to consider those in the Diaspora who have >abandoned the country. And very few of whom are participating in the >development process of the country.’’ > > >He noted that preference should be given to the stay-at-homes, who continue >to support the country’s development process. > >But he praised the dialogue forum set up by the Commonwealth, describing it >as essentially helpful in the search for political unity. > >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: >http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] >¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤